Operation Rolling Thunder

One of the first escalations towards the Vietnam War was when the Viet Cong attacked a United States base killing 8 soldiers and wounding another hundred. Johnson delayed making a major decision on Vietnam while his consultants discussed what to do next. The advisors, including the Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended a bombing the North Vietnam in order to separate the networks between them and the Viet Cong. This bombing would come in 3 stages and would be called Operation Rolling Thunder. Rolling Thunder lasted from March 2, 1965 to November 1, 1968 during which a great deal of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam. As escalation continued, President Johnson’s advisors were starting to have…

Operation Rolling Thunder Vietnam was involved in a long war before the U.S was involved. It started with the First Indochina War in Southeast Asia. The French Army was defeated by the Vietminh Army at Dien Bien Phu. This led the U.S to assist the ARVN from the NVA and VC Army. The army from NVA and the guerrilla fighters wanted to control of South Vietnam no matter what it took. The incident that led to more U.S troops becoming involved in the Vietnam War was an attack on the USS…

Operation Rolling Thunder is one of the largest US air force to strike the NVA (the North Vietnamese Army) during the Vietnam War. It was intend to destroy many industrial buildings in NVA's homeland to cripple their supplies, productions, and others. This would help to reduce the NVA's supplies to their army into the South Vietnam. However, it was the worst and ineffective ways because the NVA has a stronghold with mainly an air defense. This shows with more powerful and effective coordination…

Operation Rolling Thunder officially ended on 31 October 1968. In January 1969 peace talks with North Vietnam began in Paris, but attacks by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese continue (Gavin, 1996). At the completion of Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. and Vietnamese aircraft expended 643,000 tons of high explosive, cluster bombs, guided bombs, and fuel air explosive bombs lending to the total of 4.6 million tons dropped in Vietnam during the War (History.com Staff, 2010). In comparison…

a big impact in war. Operation Rolling Thunder was the codename for an American blockade effort amid the warfare. (www.history.com) U.S. military flying machine mistreated focuses for the duration of North Vietnam from…

I am so proud of my husband and son, they are protecting our country and are so brave. __ Has been training for years to do this and my son is so dedicated to our country. I am so honoured in having 2 men from my family in this way. News of ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’ is spreading and I can only worry what it will bring, the operation has 4 main objectives were to boost the morale of the Saigon regime, to persuade North Vietnam to halt supporting South Vietnam without taking any ground forces…

As the name implies this campaign consisted of sustained aerial bombardment against communist North Vietnam. These efforts were done in an attempt to stop or at least negotiate with North Vietnam. The attack continued with little success until 1967 when Johnson decided to increase attacks. These attack were more focused than the original air strikes and were ultimately successful. In total, Operation Rolling Thunder dropped around 643,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam. On the American side…

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This protection, affords them innocence, to be “oblivious to worldly concerns”, as stated by Robin Bernstein in her book Racial Innocence. A child’s ignorance of the outside world, in effect, is part of their innocence. Yet, a child’s innocence depends on their family’s social class, their parents, and in particular: their race. In Mildred D. Taylor’s novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor guides us through the experiences of an African American family living in the South. The Logan family,…

Charley conceivably visited Fort William in the Thunder Bay area, but its glory as a flourishing North West Company rendezvous site of the fur trade lingered only in its history. When Charley passed through the area in 1881, only two years prior to the historic fort’s permanent closure, it primarily functioned as a Hudson Bay Company fishing station.9 However, optimism for a prosperous future abounded in the Thunder Bay communities, with the reported news of the incorporation of the Canadian…